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The Attorney-General : The adoption of common standards by police forces for the submission of prosecution files should ensure that every file on initial receipt by the Crown prosecution service contains sufficient material on which an informed decision can be made as to whether a prosecution should proceed. Such an improvement should enable the Crown prosecution service to carry out its functions more efficiently and effectively and will reduce delay in the criminal justice system.
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OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Southern Africa (Drought)
44. Mr. William O'Brien : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance the Government are offering to assist with the southern African drought ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Since the beginning of 1992 we have committed about £67 million for drought work in southern Africa, including our share of the EC special food aid programme. We are ready to provide further help where it is most needed.
Poland (Privatisation)
45. Mr. Matthew Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress to date had been made on the ODA contract awarded toS. G. Warburg and Co. to aid the Polish Government's privatisation programme ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : S. G. Warburg is helping to design and implement a programme involving the creation of 10 to 15 national investment funds. The Polish Government lost a vote on 18 March on the privatisation programme. The Polish Prime Minister has said that she would not give up her reform efforts. We remain ready to help.
Know-how Funds (Scottish Organisations)
46. Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the Scottish institutions, voluntary associations and other parties which are currently taking part in the know- how fund programme ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : There are numerous Scottish companies, voluntary organisations and educational institutions involved in the various strands of the know-how fund scheme. A list has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Population
47. Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to make an official visit to the Vatican to discuss population issues.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have no plans at the moment. My right hon. and noble Friend the Minister for Overseas Development met a representative from the Vatican recently and discussed population and development issues.
Tanzania
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement about the progress of the redevelopment of the port and harbour facilities in Tanga, Tanzania.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Tenders for the civil works will close in early April. It is expected that the contract will be awarded by the end of June. As soon as that contract is awarded, and the timing and scope of the civil works contract is known, the contract to rehabilitate quayside cranes will be negotiated.
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Rhinoceroses
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what financial resources have been made available to (a) Zimbabwe, (b) Tanzania, (c) Zaire and (d) Kenya to protect the remaining rhinoceroses.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Since 1990, the following sums have been committed to projects specifically aimed at protecting the rhino.
|£
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(a) Zimbabwe |37,200
(b) Tanzania |33,600
(c) Kenya |100,000
Since 1990 we have also committed the following sums to projects concerned with the protection and conservation of wildlife, which should also benefit the rhinoceros :
|£
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(a) Zimbabwe |2,931,444
(b) Tanzania |1,155,800
(c) Kenya |13,400,331
We have not supported wildlife projects in Zaire.
Developing Countries
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out the level of aid expenditure to developing countries in each year since 1963 both at current prices and at 1992-93 prices.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The information is as follows :
Gross public expenditure on aid 1963 to 1991-92
|Actual expenditure|1992-93 prices
|on aid
|£ million |£ million
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1963 |163 |1,750
1964 |191 |1,963
1965 |197 |1,933
1966 |214 |2,014
1967 |208 |1,903
1968 |211 |1,837
1969 |210 |1,737
1970 |218 |1,667
1971 |273 |1,913
1972 |282 |1,827
1973 |285 |1,726
1974 |352 |1,782
1975 |437 |1,762
1976 |514 |1,826
1977 |589 |1,840
1978 |752 |2,119
1979 |939 |2,267
1980 |966 |1,971
1981 |1,184 |2,203
1982 |1,085 |1,885
1983 |1,174 |1,949
1984 |1,316 |2,079
1985 |1,324 |1,984
1986 |1,350 |1,960
1987-88 |1,410 |1,940
1988-89 |1,607 |2,061
1989-90 |1,733 |2,086
1990-91 |1,883 |2,099
1991-92 |2,021 |2,107
Note:
Prior to 1987-88, figures for gross public expenditure on aid are only
available on a calendar year basis.
Agricultural Development
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to support the second phase of the special programme for Africa of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) on 8 March at columns 454-55 .
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what co-operation under the know-how fund, or other assistance, is being provided to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in its work in eastern and central Europe.
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Medical Aid
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much medical aid is to be given to (a) Somalia, (b) Ethiopia and (c) other third-world countries this year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We provide health-related assistance through our bilateral aid programmes ; our support for multilateral organisations ; and as part of Britain's humanitarian assistance effort. We are providing over £100 million a year for health care, water and sanitation and population programmes in developing countries through out bilateral aid programmes and our support for health-related multilateral organisations.
In 1991-92, the last year for which figures are available, we spent £0.288 million under our bilateral country programme to Ethiopia on health-related assistance. We have no bilateral country programme to Somalia.
Our bilateral humanitarian assistance is channelled through UN agencies and non-governmental organisations. It is provided according to need and the ability of agencies to deliver. In 1992, we committeed £2.5 million in Somalia and £1.2 million in Ethiopia and Eritrea of humanitarian assistance for the provision of health care.
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PRIME MINISTER
Public Bodies (Appointments)
Mr. Clelland : To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 9 March, Official Report, column 517, if he will list the former right hon. and hon. Members who have been appointed to bodies in Northumbria to which Ministers make appointments, together with the salaries, emoluments or honoraria paid to the former hon. Members concerned since April 1992.
The Prime Minister : The information is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Nuclear Testing
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the possible contribution of a comprehensive test ban treaty towards nuclear non-proliferation.
The Prime Minister : A comprehensive test ban would not in itself prevent a proliferator from producing and deploying a crude nuclear weapon without recourse to testing, and from obtaining the materials with which to do this. But associated measures for verification and inspection, if sufficiently rigorous, and applicable to the states concerned, might constrain potential proliferations.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Prime Minister what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the negotiation of a comprehensive test ban treaty by September 1996 ; and if he will make a statement.
The Prime Minister : We support the ultimate goal of a comprehensive test ban. The factors which will influence the rate at which progress towards a ban can be made will include the need to develop an effective system of verification. We will also need to be confident that we have the necessary technologies and expertise to maintain the safety of our nuclear weapons at the highest level without testing.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the effect of the testing of nuclear weapons by emerging nuclear weapon states on the security interests of the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
The Prime Minister : Since India exploded a nuclear device in 1974, we are aware of no established case of a country other than those recognised by the non-proliferation treaty as nuclear weapons states conducting a nuclear test.
HEALTH
Low Income Scheme
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when her Department will publish its review of low income health benefits including simplification of form AG1 ; and what are the causes of the delay in publishing the review.
Dr. Mawhinney : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) on 15 December 1992 at column 184 and to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mrs. Lait) on 11 March at column 708.
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Complaints Procedure
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints were made by patients to health authorities during the last year for which figures are available ; and how many of these complaints were upheld.
Mr. Sackville : The total number of written complaints received in 1990-91 by health authorities in respect of their hospital and community services was 37,350. Information on the outcome of each complaint is not held centrally.
General Practitioners
Ms Hoey : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the family health services authority the right to suspend a general practitioner suspected of severe misconduct while his or her case is under investigation.
Mr. Sackville : The powers of family health service authorities in this, as in other areas, are kept under continuous review.
Broadgreen Hospital
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the latest representations she has received from hon. Members about the proposed closure of Broadgreen hospital.
Mr. Sackville : Liverpool health authority is conducting a public consultation exercise on the proposals to close the accident and emergency department at Broadgreen hospital. This is due to finish on 31 March and the authority will take into account all views expressed before reaching a decision.
Elective Surgery Lists
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she plans to update the elective surgery lists to encompass new techniques, change and innovation.
Mr. Sackville : The elective surgery list which forms part of the list of goods and services whch may be purchased by general practitioner fund-holding practices is under continual review.
Tropical Diseases
Mrs. Anne Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate was made, in considering the future of St. Pancras hospital for tropical diseases, of the implications for the incidence of tropical diseases of the amount of travel by British citizens to tropical countries and the ability to make early diagnosis ; (2) what plans she has to provide specialist facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of specialist diseases in London and the south-east of England when St. Pancras hospital for tropical diseases is closed ;
(3) what change is proposed in the number of beds and availability of specialist staffing for the diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases in London.
Dr. Mawhinney : In our document, "Making London Better" we proposed moving the services currently provided at the London hospital for tropical diseases onto the rationalised UCH/Middlesex site. This proposal was recommended in the Tomlinson report and has the
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support of the main parties concerned. It will bring the hospital much closer to its associated academic institution, the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine, with consequent clinical and research benefits.This proposal is subject to established consultation procedures.
Drugs (Limited List)
Mrs. Anne Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what basis the therapeutic areas mentioned in the proposed limited listing of NHS drugs have been selected ; and what consultation has taken place in the selection of the therapeutic areas in the limited listing.
Dr. Mawhinney : The categories were chosen because they cover a range of products at varying price levels and therefore offered scope for savings while enabling all real clinical needs to continue to be met. No consultations took place, because the basic structure of the select list scheme has not changed. It will be for the independent advisory committee on national health service drugs to give advice on whether particular products should be removed from prescription under the NHS.
Pharmacies
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what procedures exist for community health councils to advise family health service authorities on the granting of a contract to a pharmacy for dispensing prescriptions (a) in respect of overall policy and (b) in particular cases.
Dr. Mawhinney : Family health service authorities are expected to consult community health councils on local applications to dispense national health service prescriptions. In considering any changes to those procedures the Department would consult widely.
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans she has to abolish the application procedures for new pharmacies and all other restrictions on the provision of pharmacy services ; (2) what plans she has to streamline the procedures for family health service authorities accepting new pharmacies for dispensing NHS prescriptions.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Department is reviewing the impact of the pharmaceutical regulations on community pharmacists as part of the Government's wider initiative on deregulation. No decision has been made about the future of entry controls to pharmaceutical lists.
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is her policy on the number of pharmacies with which a family health service authority should have a contract for dispensing NHS prescriptions within inner-city areas ; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : All patients should have access to a community pharmacy regardless of where they live. In considering applications for new pharmacies, family health service authorities are required to take account of the level of provision already in the area.
NHS Drugs Bill
Mrs. Anne Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the total NHS drugs bill in each of the years since 1982.
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Dr. Mawhinney : The total national health service drugs bill comprises expenditure by the family health services (FHS) and the hospital and community health services (HCHS). Figures for England are shown in the table.
£ million Year |FHS |HCHS |Total -------------------------------- 1982-83 |1,009|245 |1,254 1983-84 |1,130|267 |1,397 1984-85 |1,192|279 |1,471 1985-86 |1,275|297 |1,572 1986-87 |1,378|318 |1,696 1987-88 |1,536|352 |1,888 1988-89 |1,744|380 |2,124 1989-90 |1,942|414 |2,356 1990-91 |2,080|460 |2,540 1991-92 |2,317|591 |2,908
Pharmacists' Fees
Mrs. Lait : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much of the drugs budget is spent on multiple fees to pharmacists for diphasic and triphasic drugs ; and how much would be saved if only one fee was paid.
Dr. Mawhinney : This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Fees paid to pharmacists form part of their remuneration. The Department is committed to simplifying the fee structure as part of its restructuring of pharmacists' remuneration.
Oral Contraceptives
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether the Government's proposed restriction of oral contraceptive prescriptions will apply to all women equally, regardless of age and medical history ; and which categories of women will be exempt from the restrictions ;
(2) what criteria are being used to determine which oral contraceptives are to be placed on the NHS selected list.
Dr. Mawhinney : The advisory committee on national health service drugs advises Health Ministers on which products in the selected list scheme categories should not be prescribable under the NHS. It is required to ensure that drugs to meet all real clinical needs can be provided economically as possible. It is open to the committee to advise that particular products can be prescribed only in specified circumstances.
Ambulance Service
Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of ambulance arrival times are collected by radio transmission ; what percentage are logged manually by ambulance staff at the scene of the incident ; and if she will publish the figures for each health authority.
Mr. Sackville : This information is not collected centrally.
Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it a requirement for ambulance services to collect and publish ambulance response times by district.
Mr. Sackville : No. It is for health authorities to decide whether to collect and publish local figures.
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Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will publish the numbers of ambulance 999 calls and any increase or decrease for each of the last five years for each health authority.
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Mr. Sackville : The information is set out in the table. Care must be taken in interpreting the data as the figures include hoax and malicious calls, aborted calls and instances of multiple calls relating to the same incident.
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Ambulance services (England)|
Total emergency calls received by authorities in years 1987-88 to 1991-92
Non metropolitan Numbers Index 1987-88=100
authorities (thousands)
|1987-88 |1988-89 |<1>1989-90|1990-91 |1991-92 |1987-88 |1988-89 |<1>1989-90|1990-91 |1991-92
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Cleveland |23.9 |22.6 |27.6 |23.8 |23.1 |100 |95 |115 |100 |97
Cumbria |12.6 |12.8 |12.9 |14.4 |14.6 |100 |102 |102 |114 |116
Durham |29.1 |27.7 |28.5 |29.5 |29.6 |100 |95 |98 |101 |102
Humberside |42.4 |41.9 |41.4 |42.4 |<2>41.8 |100 |99 |98 |100 |99
North Yorkshire |19.4 |19.2 |25.7 |19.2 |20.9 |100 |99 |132 |99 |108
Derbyshire |32.6 |32.4 |34.2 |36.6 |35.7 |100 |99 |105 |112 |110
Leicestershire |31.1 |31.2 |31.6 |31.5 |31.6 |100 |100 |102 |101 |102
Lincolnshire<3> |16.2 |16.0 |16.2 |15.6 |16.4 |100 |99 |100 |96 |101
Nottinghamshire |58.0 |52.7 |53.5 |53.6 |53.5 |100 |91 |92 |92 |92
Cambridgeshire |16.8 |16.6 |18.3 |18.1 |<2>19.2 |100 |99 |109 |108 |114
Norfolk<3> |25.2 |25.4 |25.3 |24.9 |26.8 |100 |101 |100 |99 |106
Suffolk |10.3 |10.3 |12.5 |11.5 |11.6 |100 |100 |121 |112 |113
Bedfordshire |19.5 |20.3 |15.3 |20.6 |20.5 |100 |104 |78 |106 |105
Hertfordshire |36.0 |35.7 |31.8 |36.9 |38.8 |100 |99 |88 |103 |108
Essex |62.1 |63.6 |54.9 |62.3 |62.6 |100 |102 |88 |100 |101
East Sussex |35.2 |34.5 |36.0 |36.3 |33.3 |100 |98 |102 |103 |95
Kent |51.3 |53.6 |49.2 |56.7 |56.0 |100 |104 |96 |111 |109
Surrey |47.2 |46.0 |42.3 |46.8 |42.6 |100 |97 |90 |99 |90
West Sussex |<4>5.7 |23.3 |14.8 |26.0 |25.0 |<4>100 |409 |260 |456 |439
Dorset |23.2 |22.0 |24.2 |26.3 |<2>25.6 |100 |95 |104 |113 |110
Hampshire |47.0 |41.4 |20.1 |44.1 |<2>37.5 |100 |88 |43 |94 |80
Wiltshire |13.5 |13.6 |15.7 |14.9 |14.4 |100 |101 |116 |110 |107
Isle of Wight |4.2 |4.2 |4.2 |4.3 |<2>3.5 |100 |100 |100 |102 |83
Berkshire |22.5 |25.6 |27.6 |27.5 |<2>27.7 |100 |114 |123 |122 |123
Buckinghamshire |16.5 |16.0 |13.9 |18.8 |17.2 |100 |97 |84 |114 |104
Northamptonshire |18.4 |19.4 |18.9 |16.6 |16.7 |100 |105 |103 |90 |91
Oxfordshire |12.6 |13.3 |12.2 |17.9 |15.6 |100 |106 |97 |142 |124
Avon |31.3 |30.5 |31.3 |33.1 |33.3 |100 |97 |100 |106 |106
Cornwall and Isles of
Scilly<3> |14.6 |15.3 |16.5 |16.4 |16.3 |100 |106 |113 |112 |112
Devon |33.9 |35.0 |35.2 |32.7 |<2>33.3 |100 |103 |104 |96 |98
Gloucestershire |14.1 |14.4 |14.5 |15.4 |15.7 |100 |102 |103 |109 |111
Somerset |9.6 |10.2 |8.1 |11.0 |11.1 |100 |106 |84 |115 |116
Hereford and
Worcestershire |17.5 |18.4 |14.1 |19.9 |<2>19.9 |100 |106 |81 |114 |114
Shropshire |12.3 |11.9 |11.5 |12.3 |13.7 |100 |97 |93 |100 |111
Staffordshire |33.9 |40.1 |26.1 |39.9 |41.3 |100 |118 |77 |118 |122
Warwickshire |13.0 |14.6 |13.2 |11.4 |<2>13.9 |100 |112 |102 |88 |107
Cheshire |33.0 |29.9 |32.3 |36.7 |37.5 |100 |91 |98 |111 |114
Lancashire |70.5 |70.6 |35.6 |73.6 |71.4 |100 |100 |50 |104 |101
Metropolitan authorities
Northumbria Met<3> |61.1 |61.6 |37.4 |67.3 |<2>66.1 |100 |101 |61 |110 |108
West Yorkshire Met |108.5 |107.0 |107.5 |113.3 |101.2 |100 |99 |99 |104 |93
South Yorkshire Met |49.1 |57.6 |58.8 |64.9 |64.1 |100 |117 |120 |132 |131
London Ambulance
Service |470.3 |451.1 |231.3 |456.7 |472.3 |100 |96 |49 |97 |100
West Midlands Met |115.1 |117.4 |66.9 |117.2 |<2>120.3 |100 |102 |58 |102 |105
Mersey Met |108.5 |101.4 |101.4 |103.4 |<2>102.1 |100 |93 |93 |95 |94
Greater Manchester Met |149.3 |145.4 |77.9 |159.1 |<2>157.9 |100 |97 |52 |107 |106
<1> Due to industrial action during 1989-90 figures are not representative.
<2> Return based on number of emergency patient journeys.
<3> Trust status in 1991-92.
<4> Inconsistency due to incomplete data.
Arthritis Care
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions her Department has had with Arthritis Care on its proposed quality guidelines.
Dr. Mawhinney : A departmental official discussed the quality guidelines with Mr. Richard Gutch, chief executive of Arthritis Care, on 18 March 1993.
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Resource Allocation Working Party
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will estimate the financial effect of (a) the original resource allocation working party formula and (b) the amended resource allocation working party formula recommended in 1988 in each health region's actual level of funding for each year from 1989-90.
Mr. Sackville : The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The resource allocation working party formulae were superseded in
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April 1990 by a weighted capitation formula based on resident populations, as announced in the White Paper "Working for Patients" (Cm 555, January 1989).South-East London Joint Health Board
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she was first consulted about the formation of a joint board between the South-East London Commissioning Authority and the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham family health services authority ; whether she has issued any guidelines to the two authorities ; when she approved the formation of the joint board ; when she approved the appointment of the joint chief executive ; and what is the salary of the joint chief executive.
Dr. Mawhinney : Members of the South-East London Commissioning Authority (SELCA) and Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham family health service authority (FHSA) have created an interim joint policy board to consider what arrangements will work best for them in strengthening their joint working. They expect this to lead to the setting up of a joint policy board. The three district health authorities (DHAs) within SELCA and the FHSA have recently appointed a joint chief executive operating within the existing national guidelines and salary scales for health authority general manager appointments.
Although there are no statutory powers for FHSAs and DHAs to merge, they may enter into arrangements for joint working as joint commissioning agencies where this facilitates integration of primary and secondary care. Such arrangements are matters for the relevant region and its health authorities and FHSAs to decide.
Regional Health Authorities (Staff)
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are employed by each regional health authority in England ; how many staff she expects to be made redundant by each regional health authority in each of the next three years ; and what steps have been taken by her Department to reduce staffing levels of regional health authorities.
Dr. Mawhinney : I refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave him on 18 March and 19 March at columns 352 and 437-38, and to my hon. Friend, the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) on 4 March at column 221.
Food Hygiene
Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prosecutions have taken place, in each of the last three years, for non- compliance with food hygiene regulations ; and how much money has been accumulated from the consequent fines.
Mr. Sackville : Information prior to 1991 is not available centrally.
During 1991 local authorities in the United Kingdom brought 1,143 prosecutions in connection with hygiene and microbiological contamination. In addition there were 691 prosecutions relating to chemical contamination and extraneous matter, some of which related to food safety and some to quality. The available information does not include the money accumulated from fines.
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SCOTLAND
Water and Sewerage Services
Mr. Welsh : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what formal submissions he has received to his consultative document on the future of water and sewerage services in Scotland from the 10 regional water companies in England and Wales and their subsidiaries ; and if he will publish them.
Sir Hector Monro : Three of the 10 water and sewerage companies in England and Wales responded to the consultation paper "Investing For Our Future". The response from North West Water is available in the Scottish Office library in Edinburgh and a copy can readily be obtained through the Library of the House. The other two respondents asked that their responses should be treated as confidential.
HM Prison, Greenock
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to establish a visiting committee at Her Majesty's prison, Greenock ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 18 March 1993] : In his response to the report by Her Majesty's chief inspector of prisons on Her Majesty's prison, Greenock, published last year, my right hon. Friend said that an amendment to the Prison (Scotland) Rules 1952, designating Greenock a prison in its own right with its own visiting committee, would be promulgated when the current Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill became law. That remains the position.
Training
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish by local enterprise company area (a) the numbers on youth training, employment training and employment action programmes, (b) the skills that are being learnt by youth training, employment and employment action participants, (c) the number and percentage of youth training, employment training and employment action participants who move on to full- time, permanent jobs and (d) the academic and vocational qualification achieved by participants on youth training and employment training schemes.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 10 March 1993] : Information by local enterprise company area about the skills that are learnt by youth training, employment training and employment action participants ; and the number and percentage of such participants who move on to full-time permanent jobs is not available in the form requested. Information by local enterprise company area about the numbers on youth training, employment training and employment action as at January 1993 ; and the academic and vocational qualifications achieved by participants on youth training and employment training for the period April 1992 to January 1993 is set out in the tables :
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Participants as Vocational
at January 1993 qualifications
achieved 6 April
1992 to January
1993
Youth Training Employment
Training
Local enterprise |YT |ET |EA |Word Power |Number Power |VQ Level 1 |VQ Level 2 |VQ Level 3+ |Word Power |Number Power |VQ Level 1 |VQ Level 2 |VQ Level 3+
company area
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Enterprise Ayrshire |3,227 |1,503 |330 |74 |45 |50 |561 |247 |- |2 |216 |266 |12
Scottish Borders
Enterprise |529 |117 |37 |- |- |- |30 |44 |- |- |- |- |-
Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise |909 |485 |152 |- |- |15 |133 |50 |- |- |100 |37 |-
Dunbartonshire
Enterprise |1,728 |841 |192 |34 |- |31 |244 |82 |15 |15 |148 |55 |3
Fife Enterprise |3,383 |947 |159 |3 |- |6 |335 |164 |3 |- |92 |35 |4
Forth Valley Enterprise |2,726 |769 |127 |28 |30 |23 |354 |161 |18 |19 |70 |166 |-
Glasgow Development
Agency |4,758 |3,569 |671 |34 |20 |17 |667 |360 |283 |270 |652 |429 |50
Grampian Enterprise<1> |2,785 |342 |88 |- |- |13 |57 |21 |- |- |20 |15 |12
Lanarkshire Development
Agency |3,176 |1,396 |367 |20 |17 |33 |389 |209 |- |2 |211 |157 |94
Lothian and Edinburgh
Enterprise Ltd. |4,184 |1,246 |573 |- |3 |38 |340 |201 |- |- |51 |265 |12
Moray, Badenoch and
Strathspey |434 |166 |14 |- |- |- |92 |17 |- |- |1 |1 |-
Renfrewshire Enterprise |2,070 |992 |248 |27 |13 |8 |246 |189 |- |- |179 |281 |7
Scottish Enterprise
Tayside |2,730 |924 |270 |- |- |20 |313 |209 |- |1 |157 |81 |39
<1>Since April 1991 a pilot Youth Credits Scheme, Grampian Skillseekers, has operated in the Grampian Enterprise area in place of Youth Training. Of the 2,785 young people shown, 2,756 were receiving training under the Skillseekers scheme and 29 were residual
participants in Youth Training.
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